[swombat]

Despite what you might think, unlike Facebook, people do not really give a damn if you unfollow them on Twitter. Stop being such a wuss and just unfollow people whose tweets you don't want to see. If they're the rare case who gets back to you and asks you why, you can then provide them with valuable feedback.

[noelchurchill]

I have an old friend I follow on twitter who tweets way to much garbage and I want to unfollow her, but I know for a fact she uses an unfollow tracker, and I KNOW it'll spite her. I wish there was a way to mute people right in Twitter.

[jarin]

If she's an old friend, just tell her (as an old friend) that you're not interested in her tweets and that's why you're unfollowing her. To rely on third-party services to avoid dealing with interpersonal relations is what is known as "being passive-aggressive".

Anyway, it's not like you're calling her baby ugly, it's just Twitter.

[hnhg]

She might not take it well. You might then say he's better off without that kind of friendship, but that's not the outcome he wanted.

[zbowling]

Actually no. People do. Heck I even wrote a simple ruby script to help me track when and what I said that caused people to unfollow me, and who it was to see if they important or not:

https://github.com/zbowling/followdiff

The real solution came with lists. Following has always been a vanity thing. There are people that I want to follow but don't want those people to know. Also I want to follow people out of respect but their volume is too high. Private lists give me that solution.